map

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

Map is a standard function in Lisp and other functional programming languages. Map has two arguments map(f,list). where the function f is applied to every element of the list forming a new list. That is
map( f, (a,b,c...z) ) = ( f(a), f(b), f(c), ... f(z) ).

The map function is one of the inspirations for the MapReduce infrastructure for massive scale processing of big data.

Defined on page 165

Used on page 165

Also known as map, lisp